About Emily
Emily Hakkinen is a licensed clinical social worker in Vermont with five years of practice. She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, relationship strain, and challenges around motivation and addiction. She aims to make the first step feel doable and nonjudgmental for anyone reaching out.
Her sessions focus on listening closely and getting a clear sense of what matters to each person. Emily uses straightforward, collaborative conversation to identify small changes that make daily life easier.
How Emily works
She often combines practical problem solving with reflective exercises that help people notice unhelpful patterns. Emily draws on client-centered methods to keep the session focused on the person's goals. She uses mindfulness techniques to help with stress and grounding when emotions feel overwhelming.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to shift habits or build motivation for recovery or personal growth. People also work through stories from their lives using narrative and solution-focused ideas to rewrite difficult chapters and set short-term steps. Sessions can include goal-setting, skill practice, and homework aimed at real-world changes.
The tone in sessions is warm, direct, and supportive. Emily practices in Vermont and conducts sessions online in English. She guides each person through the early steps of therapy and helps adapt the approach over time to match changing needs.
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What Emily works with
The areas below are the ones Emily selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Vermont |
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Online support options
How Emily’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy puts the person's goals at the center of the work. Online sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the individual and shaping each meeting around those priorities. This approach is useful when someone needs a space to talk through feelings and decide next steps. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce stress and reactivity. In virtual meetings, these techniques can be practiced together and then used between sessions to manage anxiety or overwhelming emotions. Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will collaborate with each client to try methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as needed over time. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick reflections, ongoing coaching, or brief skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently.Start online instead of waiting
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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